North Korea appears to have its own auto manufacturer. On a recent visit to the country, we toured the company's salesroom in Pyongyang. It was hard to discern what was real and what wasn't.
@@M.1.2.3.4.5. You’re actually not allowed to speak to citizens of North korea & they’re not allowed to speak to tourists.. that man could have been potentially executed or sent to a labor camp after this video… so no I wouldn’t say “unfriendly”
Idk what this guys thinking didnt Obama leave our citizens in their prisons his whole presidential campaign? Untill orange man rad 👌 came and saved them. Well Obamas butt buddie is in office js. Its a good way to not be free.
@@GobbyRocks They were most likely driven there in a tourist bus or something. NK wanted people to see how great their country is so of course they were fine with him filming the cars.
such a beautiful car dealership. To have such a dealership is a testament to the supreme success of this nation. I am blown away by what I see here. This makes me want to move to north korea. Wow, what a beautiful country it must be, for them to have cars for sale.
@@TheCarzAll yes i am sitting here not at gunpoint with my own free will thinking outloud that I should probably move to north korea it looks like a great place
The entire country feels like an unfinished computer game where NPCs do weird interactions without any depth and there are significant parts of the game world that you are not supposed to see because they are "not ready yet"
@@brandontan5700 they have an embassy in the Russian Federation and i managed to get into contact with two North Korean men. They were both short and wearing the same clothes, blue jeans and brown vests (i knew they were communists because of how they looked and I saw them enter the North Korean embassy). I was next to them waiting for the light to go green at the crosswalk, they seemed really scared when I got close to them. I can imagine that you have to know Kim Jong Un if You want to leave the country to be a diplomat abroad, and I have a strong suspicion you can't have kids whilst you are living abroad.
@@ADAM-tx4nv pensando que o vídeo era de seis anos atrás e seria um modelo "desatualizado", compara com dois SUVs manuais chineses: Cherry Tiggo 2 por 80mil e JAC T40 de entrada por 90000, ambos manuais. O norte coreano bem mais caro, mas ainda dentro do ""razoável"" de 30-50% a mais
@@Tom-mx4eq no hollywood actor life didn't always scripted for being a random guy, while this NPC if they didn't do in the script list they would be deleted
@@happyalltheday2275 So ur from North Korea I take it? You know what their job is from experience? Or you just making this all up?🤣😂 You also must be a Famous Hollywood actor or one of the two???? Otherwise your just speaking from your ass😂🤣😅
I’m honestly convinced that ALL these cars are from the rest of the world, just rebranded under the North Korean fake emblem. The Jeep at (1:44) looks extremely similar to an older Range Rover and the Sudan at (2:05) has a front grill and headlights almost directly resembling an older Subaru Legacy.
@@se7ense7ens37 Chinese copies of existing cars with a North Korean badge. Kia Sorento look-alike is a Chinese Huanghai Landscape (unlicensed copy), there's also a LDV Maxus van and some others I don't recognize.
worldline I studied international relationships, moron. Look, just shut the fuck up, bide your time, gather experience FROM EVERYWHERE (not just echo chambers that confirm what you think) and wait 10 years, - in 10 years you'll look back at now and agree completely, guaranteed.
I am blown away by the success of these people. look at that dealership, look at how clean it is. Those cars? All brand stankin new. Looks to me like I've been fed propoganda my whole life about North Korea being poor. But this video proves all that wrong. I now see and believe that North Korea is an incredibly prosperous country. Furthermore, I see all those customers in that place, looks like business is booming. Amazing to see the success of this country.
Sorry to burst your bubble, everything seen here is just for show. It’s all propaganda from their “dear leader” to make a feeble attempt to make themselves look good.
You also see the woman behind the desk glance at the guy recording and then say something to the other guy behind the desk while hiding her lips behind a piece of paper. Sketchy
@@Xorberax also that link in that comment section a while ago doesn’t work. The one where I was supposed to send a song that you may or may not have (11:17 Dreams Unfinished) not the standard 11:17 dreams, it’s like 5 minutes long.
North Korean dialect is a bit finicky, but here's what I managed to translate: "You like this car?" *man walks over to group* "The fighters guild is recruiting again. Not a bad way to make some money, if you've got the stones for it." "Good to hear." "Good day." "Goobye." *Brief pause* "How does the day greet you, friend?" "With what right do you disturb me?" "Take care."
@@ge2623 I dunno, you wanna blame Trump but considering all that crap happened in 2016 and Obama twiddle his thumbs and it was TRUMP that finally got him out.... pretty good deal if all he had to do was give the man some flowers.... at least he DID SOMETHING
Should have stayed there for like 6 hours...the actors would have been like "when's this guy gonna leave?! We need to go back to pray to our leader" lol
most likely they werent actors, the only actor was the fucking idiot narrator. Those so called actors were looking at him because theyve never seen a foreigner before, let alone such a naive and arrogant one with this obnoxious attitude
idk it seems way more plausible to me that there exists a car dealership in north korea than everything there is a facade put on to fool you specifically. these people are acting like most people I've seen at car dealerships
Most people ive ever seen at a car dealerships are sitting inside the cars, feeling the interior, talking numbers with the sales reps and taking them for testdrives while some pop radio station plays in the background and the secretary flirts with the technicians
When I was stationed in South Korea with the US Army I would still get nervous when we were close to the border. And I had full tactical gear on and the backing of the US Military. You are there in a tour literally roasting them live. You sir have balls. You never know what they would consider offensive. Damn.
I like the fact that if u visit other country, we would be shown scenery, museums or something more touristy. But in north korea you are shown normal people stuff lol.
Imagine being an actor in NK knowing your job is to help convince foreign visitors that your country isn't shit, but when you get off work you're expected to actually believe your country is glorious and great with a great leader.
This remembers me the ministries workers in 1984. I think Orwell explains very well a way of how you can still believe the lies even when you are participating in the creation of them
This is like the real life equivalent of that Rick and Morty episode where they were in a simulation and Jerry’s simulation’s processing power was severely limited to save usage
if they really are actors , he isnt as low key as he thinks. if they really are actors iam pretty sure they can understand and speak english and they are there to listen and watch everything
Suave Chiang The people walking around are literally acting like they don't know whats at the dealership.How many dealerships can there be in North Korea.
Ok, how do you guys not know that the whole "acting" thing is just american propaganda? I mean, have you thought logically, WHY the hell would they do that? Yes, sure, they maybe put on a good show, like citys do when there is an Olympic game, but that everything is just STAGED? How is then normal life in North Korea? If they are suffering 24/7, how could they put on an act? I'm not pro-NK in any way. My thoughts with NK is that it is as authoritarian as a medieval european state. Such as, don't say anything bad about the king or you will be executed in the town center.
Neither was Otto Warmbier. Besides an extremely low quality video and a confession at a gun point, the DPRK government hasn't provided any real, verifiable shred of evidence about him going on the hotel's 5th floor and/or stealing a propaganda poster. Plus nobody is stupid enough to go to a country that hardcore about it's stupid laws, and do something that would lead to certain death.
Because in what normal country you can only go visit with a guide h24? Which take you to a dealership? Wtf? Imagine i ho to USA from Europe i won’t visit normal places like supermarkets or car dealerships . It looks like the guide is trying to tell them “Look North Korea is normal people buy cars!”
You're all being sarcastic, right? You don't actually think "North Korean car dealerships are fake conspiracies and filled only with paid actors" is the more likely explanation for this than "North Korea has a car dealership and people act strangely due to the huge culture and language gap"? You're all being sarcastic, right....?
It must be so empowering for those poor imprisoned North Koreans that Americans know the truth by devaluing their personhood so much that they're immediately assumed to be actors the moment they're witnessed doing anything normal.
RIGHT LMAO all i see in this video is the most delusional guy ever who cannot believe this super duper scary country of north korea has...a car dealership...it...it can't be...
The gray/silver sedan he called a 'corolla' definitely looks like a rebranded Subaru. I guess either way it's still a Japanese car in NK... friggin hilarious.
@@ScottPC only thing that changes on them is the logos lol, bet the manufacturers are thrilled about their cars being rebranded to a shitty brand that sells less then one car a year
@@ussindianapolis9137 yep most of thems are just copy of chinese brand which they also copied from other brands so its like double copied models.. Those vans and jeeps are copied or benchmarked whatever they call from russian brands like UAZ and a SUV at 2:32 is a copy of Kia sorento. They would like to say its been built under license but its basically funded by China so...
The only SOMEONE that would really buy a car is nobody (ik ik) because if you are lucky enough to be deemed worthy of having a car; the government would gift it to you. Government officials/ olympic winners etc
My favorite detail is at 2:30, where the man on the far right breaks the silence with a loud cough, to let the others at the counter know that “tourist guy” was coming back this way.
As a Chinese ,I must told you that it is a chinese car called Datong ,and it just imitate the VW (I'm not sure but I heard about that most of the new cars in North Korea is from China)
Pyeonghwa Motors actually's got some good looking cars, I wonder if they're any good...Or if you could get one outside NK (or even buy one over there and move it overseas). That tag-less sedan actually looks really cool...imagine how badass would it be to drive one of these outside of NK. (With all that North-Korean branding, and probably North-korean written dashboard as well).
It might look like an outdated piece of scrap but you will be spending several hundred grand in smuggling the car out getting past sanctions, transporting it, and smuggling it into your country
Glorious Korea has best automobiles in the entire world. Every car comes with Diesel engine, air conditioner, and wiper to clean windscreen during rainy weather. Chairman Kim invented the automobile when he was a boy and graced the people of Korea with his glorious and groundbreaking invention
You would be interested in life-sized inflatables. ;D But seriously, what gets me is the factory plastic wrapped seats. These cars have never felt a pair of cheeks on them, and that's the real tragedy. v__v
By comparison the Truman Show is utopia though. This is their shining star capital as this is as good as it gets and only for a small elite minority. Beyond this its practically medieval slums only with less food.
@@wagadoogado i like that it's just a car without any bells and whistles. They even managed to make the screen look utilitarian by just popping it on the dash. The radio below the screen looks familiar though. It looks like some sort of blaupunkt. They put one in one of our company's semi truck a few months ago and it sounds amazing
This feels like an early GTA game, non branded GTA cars made to look like real life counterparts, the NPC looking and sounding people, even the showroom looks like it's missing something from real life
@@KyleC11 yea but it only takes just 1 person who speak english.. waitt they also go with tour guides (that speaks english obviously) i dont even want to risk it
@@GregHali It is not, "playing with fire," it is excruciating embarrassment. How could he have so little tact or respect of another country or its people?
Can you share a link to that video? It sounds more funny. This video makes it harder to be sure his actor suggestion is accurate. Sitting and looking at blank screens while typing or moving the mouse would be far more amusing.
0:50 you can see “猎豹汽车” on the license plate frame, they imported cars and trucks from China (kinda explains the 3M brand), took the emblems off and put North Korean names on them.
Bruh i swear NK is like that one little brother that you asked if he needed help and says no even though you see him struggling trying to make it work.
Hmm... but... you mean help from other countries I'm assuming (am I right?) Yeah, If that's the case...well, idk. I think leaders from NK understand the "nothing is for free" dynamic and indeed; "asking" for help or "using" someone's "help", basically means (let's face it; It's a very common dynamic in our daily basis deployed even by our own families. It's shady and stuff but It's sadly there) I owe you one and sometimes those favors cost me even more at the end than the one I was needing to begin with You lend me a pencil while at the same time, lowkey expecting a whole bookcase in return. There are a lot of people who act subtlety like this.
The people can barely afford to eat there, much less afford a car, if you see someone with a car, they are most likely a high ranking military officer or official
Imagine if that was your 9-5 job. Going to a car dealership and pretending you are going to buy a car... every single day. And you commute to and from work on foot.😆
At least it's a varied field. They have people pretending to be Christians in Pyongyang's only Catholic church (which caused a minor diplomatic incident when German diplomats noticed that it was a farce), they have people pretending to be guests in resorts and hotels (sounds like the best job), customers in restaurants (they have to pretend to like cold food), they have actors in "model farms" and "model factories" pretending to be farmers and factory workers and of course every North Korean has to play the devout subject whenever the ruling Kims need to be praised.
@@Br4m76 aid shipments from China helps keeps starvation at bay, but hunger and malnutrition is a big thing. North Koreans are considerably smaller and shorter compared to South Koreans due to stunted growth and chronic lack of proper diet. the food they grow themselves are pretty much old style hand tools farming which doesn't produce nearly as much as modern methods.
That's like me in a Mercedes dealership I went in while on holiday in scotland. It went silent. Everyone vanished and then a guy approached me speaking German and pointing at the door. I left and went to the Ford garage across the road. They gave me a hamburger as it was the 4th of July and they had a bar-B-Q going and a case of bud light. I passed on the bud but had a cheeseburger. Yum yum. 😂
"What is your dad's job?"
"He's an NPC at local auto dealer"
LMAO
hahaha.
Best comment of all time
Somebody has to do it
NPK
"I work at a car dealership"
"Oh wow, what exactly is your job there?"
"I'm a customer"
😂😂😂
LMAO
😂😂
looooooool
😂😂😂
"Do you like this car?"
Korean whisper: "Shut up, you will get us both detained"
1. He doesnt understand english
Or
2. Extreme unfriendly
@@M.1.2.3.4.5. You’re actually not allowed to speak to citizens of North korea & they’re not allowed to speak to tourists.. that man could have been potentially executed or sent to a labor camp after this video… so no I wouldn’t say “unfriendly”
@@VsSecretChannel okay thats true
@@VsSecretChannel gurl you know you lying🙄. You've never been there so you don't know nothing
@@christopher7804 I hope this is a troll & not someone who genuinely believes that 💀
"You like this car?"
**Walks away**
"Oh, I think I scared them."
**Guy looks back**
XD
Idk what this guys thinking didnt Obama leave our citizens in their prisons his whole presidential campaign? Untill orange man rad 👌 came and saved them. Well Obamas butt buddie is in office js. Its a good way to not be free.
@@Ave_Satana666 go away with your dumb political shit.
*vine boom sound effect*
You know you're in a rough country when the "tourist" destination is an auto dealership.
Underrated : D
🤣
Lol I was thinking the same thing
I went to China and auto dealership was never on the tour guys list. And China is not far from NK in the propaganda and suppressing freedom realm lol
Joe Taylor but everyone knows how successful china is economically, nk is known to be a shithole economically and politically
"you like this car"
"i like not being executed"
Honestly though, he could be endangering these people's lives.
@@GobbyRocks that would matter more if they were ever safe.
Lmao
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@@GobbyRocks They were most likely driven there in a tourist bus or something. NK wanted people to see how great their country is so of course they were fine with him filming the cars.
such a beautiful car dealership. To have such a dealership is a testament to the supreme success of this nation. I am blown away by what I see here. This makes me want to move to north korea. Wow, what a beautiful country it must be, for them to have cars for sale.
You’re a pathetic troll
its a joke @@Poydra
Um.. Actually, this is staged by the north korean government to trick you into thinking that its a good country 🤓
Yes indeed I love this dealership. Shows how far in technology they are. I am really saying this! (I'm not being forced to😢😢)
@@TheCarzAll yes i am sitting here not at gunpoint with my own free will thinking outloud that I should probably move to north korea it looks like a great place
Loved how the guy coughed to alert their fellow actors that the tourist are coming here and it's time to step up the acting game. 😂😂
HAHAHAHA! 😂😂
Phone starts to make dial tones
"They are actors"
"let's go follow them"
How to get killed in n Korea 101
Next video: North Korean Labour Camp
@Ebenezer: and filmed with a REAL potato.
Right. He'll end up like that one guy who was at a work internship. N.K. framed him and tortured and killed the guy. All because they wanted to.
Plus he is loudly calling out people, he is lucky he got out of there in one piece.
Haha
The entire country feels like an unfinished computer game where NPCs do weird interactions without any depth and there are significant parts of the game world that you are not supposed to see because they are "not ready yet"
Exactly what it is
Lmfao
So Cyberpunk 2077 basically?
@@brandontan5700 they have an embassy in the Russian Federation and i managed to get into contact with two North Korean men.
They were both short and wearing the same clothes, blue jeans and brown vests (i knew they were communists because of how they looked and I saw them enter the North Korean embassy).
I was next to them waiting for the light to go green at the crosswalk, they seemed really scared when I got close to them.
I can imagine that you have to know Kim Jong Un if You want to leave the country to be a diplomat abroad, and I have a strong suspicion you can't have kids whilst you are living abroad.
@@brandontan5700 more like cyberpunk 1980
1:31
$32,000 for a 5-speed manual SUV that has an interior from legit 20 years ago.
THE LEOPAARD
That's actually reasonable for most third world countries
Better than the stupid touchscreens and tablets and crap that are in modern cars.
@@jpedrosc98 mais de cem mil reais por aquela caminhonetezinha?
@@ADAM-tx4nv pensando que o vídeo era de seis anos atrás e seria um modelo "desatualizado", compara com dois SUVs manuais chineses: Cherry Tiggo 2 por 80mil e JAC T40 de entrada por 90000, ambos manuais. O norte coreano bem mais caro, mas ainda dentro do ""razoável"" de 30-50% a mais
0:57 the guy's backwards glance after erick says "i think I scared them" needs the vine boom sound effect
Best comment ever
asian gong sound effect
“As you can see NPCs exist in this world”
And the main player is Kim himself.
Idk so does that mean everyone in Hollywood is a NPC? When they are acting???🧐🤨🥸
@@Tom-mx4eq no hollywood actor life didn't always scripted for being a random guy, while this NPC if they didn't do in the script list they would be deleted
@@happyalltheday2275 So ur from North Korea I take it? You know what their job is from experience? Or you just making this all up?🤣😂 You also must be a Famous Hollywood actor or one of the two???? Otherwise your just speaking from your ass😂🤣😅
@@Tom-mx4eq huh what are you talking about?
Car ads- "Paid Actors"
NK dealerships- "Paid Actors"
You mean forced actors.
You mean slightly less tortured actors
Who said they're getting paid :v
@@chriscohea2817 same for the car ads
the only difference is the fact that the north koreans doesn't get paid
The most hilarious thing is that the car on the thumbnail (0:42) is actually a rebranded Kia Sorento (1st generation). A South Korean car!
Plot Twist: Kia's are rebranded North Korean cars
& in North Korean, there's a car which looks similar to FIAT.
It was assembled locally under a joint venture deal so its legit not just rebranded.
I’m honestly convinced that ALL these cars are from the rest of the world, just rebranded under the North Korean fake emblem. The Jeep at (1:44) looks extremely similar to an older Range Rover and the Sudan at (2:05) has a front grill and headlights almost directly resembling an older Subaru Legacy.
@@se7ense7ens37 Chinese copies of existing cars with a North Korean badge. Kia Sorento look-alike is a Chinese Huanghai Landscape (unlicensed copy), there's also a LDV Maxus van and some others I don't recognize.
“You like this car?”
“Pen pineapple apple pen”
Ok this shit make me smile lmao
Holyshit I totally forgot about that meme
I am amazed that you weren't arrested.
+worldline Something tells me you don't know much about the world...
worldline I studied international relationships, moron. Look, just shut the fuck up, bide your time, gather experience FROM EVERYWHERE (not just echo chambers that confirm what you think) and wait 10 years, - in 10 years you'll look back at now and agree completely, guaranteed.
Koot I don't think he even understands what we're saying.
worldline Well if you act dumb, what do you expect?
worldline It's you're, and what are you, 8?
Erick: I know you're actors
Erick: Last online 5 years ago....
Shit! I just checked to make sure he's breathing
He's alive
@@wendyokoopa7048 we know
He posted a video 2 days ago
@@rja9784 but was it really him...? 🤔
I am blown away by the success of these people. look at that dealership, look at how clean it is. Those cars? All brand stankin new. Looks to me like I've been fed propoganda my whole life about North Korea being poor. But this video proves all that wrong. I now see and believe that North Korea is an incredibly prosperous country. Furthermore, I see all those customers in that place, looks like business is booming. Amazing to see the success of this country.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, everything seen here is just for show. It’s all propaganda from their “dear leader” to make a feeble attempt to make themselves look good.
Sarcasm at its finest
Lololololol
north korea is a great place
I love the “implement having a conversation, the foreigner is coming” cough at 2:31
Uncanny
Holy crap, that's totally what that was XD
You also see the woman behind the desk glance at the guy recording and then say something to the other guy behind the desk while hiding her lips behind a piece of paper. Sketchy
LMAO IM DYING I didn’t notice that at first, guess it worked
@@NickTerry1 she's probably warning her coworker about the fucking weirdo pointing his camera at people and narrating
This is legit some NPC behavior you’d see in a game.
@@gupoll welcomw
@@Xorberax also that link in that comment section a while ago doesn’t work. The one where I was supposed to send a song that you may or may not have (11:17 Dreams Unfinished) not the standard 11:17 dreams, it’s like 5 minutes long.
Dehumanizing
Even better, the idle animations are premade from some Unity forum.
my father is an NPC he wakes up and goes to sleep at the same time every day
"No price tag, it must be free"
The battle cry of shopping dad's around the world.
Almost 1000 likes with no replys? Such a shame
@@save15ormoreonyourcarinsur98 I concur
@@save15ormoreonyourcarinsur98 right?!
i felt that. it made me feel broke. thanks
It's free, but you have to wait 25 years for it.
North Korean dialect is a bit finicky, but here's what I managed to translate:
"You like this car?"
*man walks over to group*
"The fighters guild is recruiting again. Not a bad way to make some money, if you've got the stones for it."
"Good to hear."
"Good day."
"Goobye."
*Brief pause*
"How does the day greet you, friend?"
"With what right do you disturb me?"
"Take care."
Thank you for this
and then a soldier teleports behind you "STOP! YOU VIOLATED THE LAW!"
Nobody said they took a bullet in the knee?
Thank you kind sir
are they told to speak like skyrim propaganda?
"you like this car?"
*North Korean guy blinks "help" in Morse code
This guy has some serious balls considering someone who took down a poster was chemically paralysed and killed
Did we end up doing ANYTHING about that? Oh wait Trump probably sent the N. Koreans flowers.
@@ge2623 whats joe gonna do say um the whole time?
@@leonelmartinez2486 their both d-bags
@@ge2623 I dunno, you wanna blame Trump but considering all that crap happened in 2016 and Obama twiddle his thumbs and it was TRUMP that finally got him out.... pretty good deal if all he had to do was give the man some flowers.... at least he DID SOMETHING
@@leonelmartinez2486 Joe: Against the NK regime
Trump: Lets have dinner
Should have stayed there for like 6 hours...the actors would have been like "when's this guy gonna leave?! We need to go back to pray to our leader" lol
his tour guides would force him to leave
it's also really common for groups of customers to discuss the cars together at the counter, after thoroughly looking at them in the showroom...
Tech Defender they would of told him hurry up and buy
most likely they werent actors, the only actor was the fucking idiot narrator. Those so called actors were looking at him because theyve never seen a foreigner before, let alone such a naive and arrogant one with this obnoxious attitude
volkbyte They most likely were actors and judging by how offended you are that he exposed them you are probably one too.
"We had a really good quarter, we managed to pretend to sell 47 cars!"
"what do your parents do?"
"They work at a dealership"
"Oh cool, they are dealers?"
"No. Actors"
I'm actually scared for his life lol. He keeps pointing out they are actors and shit, i'm waiting for the video where some soldier drags him away
It takes guts to even travel to North Korea as an American when you know that North Koreans are raised to hate Americans.
Hardy30680 just say youre canadian
TheShoppingCart I'm pretty sure to them it's the same
Neko girl
Ikr
Olivier Savard
White Canadians and white Americans look exactly the same, cant tell the difference!!!
Only an American would speak to someone in English and expect them to respond.
You gotta be stupid to expect north koreans to speak english.
Ll Lock He was messing with em
meh I kinda do it in the Netherlands but everyone speaks english here. English is my third language
Michael Weidmann - Your bigotry is showing (he's Canadian).
Im so glad to be european
To meet other people from other cultures
To speak in their language
To eat their food i fucking love it
idk it seems way more plausible to me that there exists a car dealership in north korea than everything there is a facade put on to fool you specifically. these people are acting like most people I've seen at car dealerships
Most people ive ever seen at a car dealerships are sitting inside the cars, feeling the interior, talking numbers with the sales reps and taking them for testdrives while some pop radio station plays in the background and the secretary flirts with the technicians
1:18 3M is a global brand. They're huge in China and South Korea.
Everyone knows it, he was confused what the hell is 3M sticker doing on a random replica car
And that's exactly why it is strange.
North Korean actors: "Do you think he knows?"
North Korean government: "Just smile and wave."
"Just smile and wave bois just smile and wave"
"You like this car?"
"Well, I certainly can't complain about it."
Imagine if the "customer" gave him that response...
is that a hunger games quote
Idk what thjs guys thinking
Didnt Obama leave people in jail their until trump got in office?
Those cars probably don’t even have engines in them. 😂
They're probably bolted to the floor
Hey those cars have the finest foam engines craftsmanship I have ever seen
Probably made out of aluminum
Most havent even got wiper blades😂
The bottom is mostly flat probably
If anybody is wondering, this car brand is called Pyeonghwa Motors (평화자동차).
Thanks!
Thanks
You write "Pyeonghwa" but I am hearing "Kia"
When I was stationed in South Korea with the US Army I would still get nervous when we were close to the border. And I had full tactical gear on and the backing of the US Military. You are there in a tour literally roasting them live. You sir have balls. You never know what they would consider offensive. Damn.
I like the fact that if u visit other country, we would be shown scenery, museums or something more touristy. But in north korea you are shown normal people stuff lol.
That’s because they want it to seem that everyone is normal
Because people won't watch your videos if you show things people usually do. They need a little bit publicity for making money🤣
Kim: y-yeah, exactly hehe, normal s-stuff
@@A_78939 yea and boring so people don’t come back
@@A_78939 thanks Sherlock! Idk how we didn't all see that
Imagine being an actor in NK knowing your job is to help convince foreign visitors that your country isn't shit, but when you get off work you're expected to actually believe your country is glorious and great with a great leader.
This remembers me the ministries workers in 1984. I think Orwell explains very well a way of how you can still believe the lies even when you are participating in the creation of them
Like US is any better
@@ninoslavradonjic5943 nah
@@ninoslavradonjic5943 I would say the US is a million times better than N. Korea don't you think so?
@@ninoslavradonjic5943 I'd love to know how you figure that or why you think it matters to the situation
Yeah bro the whole country is just actors, trust me bro I’m not schizophrenic at all
This is like the real life equivalent of that Rick and Morty episode where they were in a simulation and Jerry’s simulation’s processing power was severely limited to save usage
Omg dude this is just like rick and morty xdddd
he lowkey roasting the locals. lmao
El-Chapo-Hagtos lmao
TO THE GULAG WITH YOU
With some 3 m strips
if they really are actors , he isnt as low key as he thinks. if they really are actors iam pretty sure they can understand and speak english and they are there to listen and watch everything
El-Chapo-Hagtos lmao i know im weak
Very creepy. It's like watching aliens pretend to be human.
+Master Q Okay, Kim Jung-Un, everyone knows it's you. Stop pretending like you're someone else.
Like that woman from mars attacks
Suave Chiang The people walking around are literally acting like they don't know whats at the dealership.How many dealerships can there be in North Korea.
Suave Chiang you guys are paranoid as fuck....american gov dictated media sheep...anybody who is opposing america is deviled
Ok, how do you guys not know that the whole "acting" thing is just american propaganda? I mean, have you thought logically, WHY the hell would they do that? Yes, sure, they maybe put on a good show, like citys do when there is an Olympic game, but that everything is just STAGED? How is then normal life in North Korea? If they are suffering 24/7, how could they put on an act?
I'm not pro-NK in any way. My thoughts with NK is that it is as authoritarian as a medieval european state. Such as, don't say anything bad about the king or you will be executed in the town center.
This guy is the one friend who gets you into deep shit because he doesn't know how to shut the hell up.
Those cars would probably never see the roads
This model sir even has an engine unlike its predecessors
Roshan John Reminds me of this czcams.com/video/rhvt4zEMyfY/video.html
I don't know if anyone cares but I'm your 1000th like on this comment, @Roshan John
I use ur avatar as phone wallpaper, cheers!
@@TriXelOne Nice
The previous model came with your choice of powerplant: person or ox
One wrong move and you could've ended up like Otto Warmbier.
mikolanimator my first exact thoughts - really dumb thing to do if real.
Exactly
Nah... he's not a religious nut, missionary, or social activist
Neither was Otto Warmbier. Besides an extremely low quality video and a confession at a gun point, the DPRK government hasn't provided any real, verifiable shred of evidence about him going on the hotel's 5th floor and/or stealing a propaganda poster. Plus nobody is stupid enough to go to a country that hardcore about it's stupid laws, and do something that would lead to certain death.
mrknockknock1 North Korea "protected by its strong brother" SOUTH KOREA?! wow...
how are you so sure they're all actors? is it so hard to imagine people buy cars
Because in what normal country you can only go visit with a guide h24? Which take you to a dealership? Wtf? Imagine i ho to USA from Europe i won’t visit normal places like supermarkets or car dealerships . It looks like the guide is trying to tell them “Look North Korea is normal people buy cars!”
This video is ridiculously good! Thanks Erick for doing this.!
"Do you like this car?"
*Doesn't respond*
"I think I scared them"
*Turns around*
Lol
Haha fr
In English
“You like this car?”
*Man who only speaks Korean walks away*
“Guess I scared him.”
🤣
*Man who only speaks Korean looks back at you suspiciously*
I really cringed when he said i scared him like bro he doesn’t speaks English how did u even scare him by saying that
@@Thestraycat6 almost like that is the joke
@@couch9416 well sorry i dont get it :(
Beyond hilarious how americans will believe absolutel anything as long as its convenient for them
6 airbags and 12 microphones in every car. High safety rating if your not denouncing the leader
"So this is our new van with 3M strips..."
Maybe i'm an idiot but I don't get the deal with the 3M strips. O_o
Calvin Laudrensio 3M is an American company so them having 3M strips on their cars make them look like idiots.
ok. I thought maybe there was something more to it.
Lots of work vehicles/trailers out 3m strip on the vehicle for reflection for safety reasons.
i'm sure, the employees have no idea where those strips come from. rather than stupidity, this is fucking sad
Looks like a Corolla? That's obviously the love child of a Subaru Legacy and a Hyundai Sonata.
Johnny Cancer Exactly what I was thinking
Johnny Cancer And the headlights of a bmw e60
I know right. Toyota Corolla? He doesn’t know cars at all. I wish someone would’ve karate-chopped him for that.
It looks like a heavily modified Subaru Legacy 2015 model. I have the picture beside it, and the front looks identical.
💯
You're all being sarcastic, right? You don't actually think "North Korean car dealerships are fake conspiracies and filled only with paid actors" is the more likely explanation for this than "North Korea has a car dealership and people act strangely due to the huge culture and language gap"?
You're all being sarcastic, right....?
I want to see a parody of this video where someone does this in the US honestly. Would be funny as hell.
It must be so empowering for those poor imprisoned North Koreans that Americans know the truth by devaluing their personhood so much that they're immediately assumed to be actors the moment they're witnessed doing anything normal.
RIGHT LMAO all i see in this video is the most delusional guy ever who cannot believe this super duper scary country of north korea has...a car dealership...it...it can't be...
That "jeep" is a brand new 2008
Brainwashed western, eat all western propaganda, what an irony
Me: can you pop the hood so I can look at the engine
“Dealer”: starts sweating profoundly
That “leopard” is a rebranded mitsubishi montero from the late 90’s 😂
No airbag! Look how skinny the steering wheel is.
This is pathetic.
I want a leopard
The gray/silver sedan he called a 'corolla' definitely looks like a rebranded Subaru.
I guess either way it's still a Japanese car in NK... friggin hilarious.
@@GunShark0 facts I was like thats a damn subaru legacy
@@midcenturymodern9330 don’t need an airbag if there aren’t any other cars on the road to crash into.
3m tape is the only legit thing in that dealership
If you look closely there all normal cars rebranded..
@@ScottPC only thing that changes on them is the logos lol, bet the manufacturers are thrilled about their cars being rebranded to a shitty brand that sells less then one car a year
@@ussindianapolis9137 yep most of thems are just copy of chinese brand which they also copied from other brands so its like double copied models.. Those vans and jeeps are copied or benchmarked whatever they call from russian brands like UAZ and a SUV at 2:32 is a copy of Kia sorento. They would like to say its been built under license but its basically funded by China so...
@@user-eo9ob7qs8k lol, at least the chinese sell their shitty knockoffs, nk cant even get its "elite" to buy one
I find it ironic that NK hates America yet relies on a companies called Minnesota mining and minerals on there vechiles
Awesome video man
This video is absolutely mental, insane footage
The REAL problem comes when someone actually WANTS to buy a car...there would be a lot of confusion.
In nk it's not allowed to have cars
I'm looking at the kei van with the steering wheel on the left side. Hmmm...
@@stalincat2457 Probably donated by the US and redecorated.
@@gianlucaiotti2371 It is -__-
The only SOMEONE that would really buy a car is nobody (ik ik) because if you are lucky enough to be deemed worthy of having a car; the government would gift it to you. Government officials/ olympic winners etc
The "B" Wagon, by Korcedes-Shenz
More like K wagon.
The C-Class. Proper Communism served to you by the first ever Car Brand. Kaimler-Shenz
Made by our supreme leader karl jong shenz
@@kinosgelatos103 nothing more communist than taking an actual name from a car
That's china
Would be interesting to see these run through IIHS's small-overlap crash test.
fun fact ,that sedan was actually a old Chinese model which was bulid on old Mazda 6 platform 😂
My favorite detail is at 2:30, where the man on the far right breaks the silence with a loud cough, to let the others at the counter know that “tourist guy” was coming back this way.
$30K for a car without an engine? Looks like this dealership learned from EBay.
@Greg r/whooosh
All these are rebranded Chinese cars
And if you look at the grey van, it's actually a fake of a VW van. So it's a rebrand of a fake.
And also Fake Kia Sorrento SUV
They are called Pyeonghwa Motors. They use kits from Chinese cars. you can read about it on the wiki page.
Bikeman, the big van with 3M strips was a Mercedes-Benz
As a Chinese ,I must told you that it is a chinese car called Datong ,and it just imitate the VW (I'm not sure but I heard about that most of the new cars in North Korea is from China)
Excellent video. I really like the boxy suv’s.
Pyeonghwa Motors actually's got some good looking cars, I wonder if they're any good...Or if you could get one outside NK (or even buy one over there and move it overseas). That tag-less sedan actually looks really cool...imagine how badass would it be to drive one of these outside of NK. (With all that North-Korean branding, and probably North-korean written dashboard as well).
Imagine pulling up in a whip from North Korea
Driving in the LEOPAARD be like
"They see me rollin', they hatin'"
Push pull or drag, definitely not drive
@@kyleterry5190 😂😭
that's that real foreign whip XD
It might look like an outdated piece of scrap but you will be spending several hundred grand in smuggling the car out getting past sanctions, transporting it, and smuggling it into your country
Glorious Korea has best automobiles in the entire world. Every car comes with Diesel engine, air conditioner, and wiper to clean windscreen during rainy weather.
Chairman Kim invented the automobile when he was a boy and graced the people of Korea with his glorious and groundbreaking invention
😂
Perfect 😂😂
I'm sure there was more unicorns, a giant egg and a sacred mountain involved... but essentially correct.
Very nice, it would be honor, if Premier Kim would visit Glorious nation of Kazakhstan where automobile run with a Gypsy tears
Insert Fairy Tail *wow*
Nice cars! Love the variety of colors.
I wanted to scream when he said, "let's follow them."
Amazing how he was able to skate across that polished car showroom floor on his balls of steel.
How the hell did you get away with saying such things and not get in huge trouble by your North Korean handlers?
because none of them speak English!
+sarahhime they do teach English in their primary school. Sure, they will never use it in their lifetime, but will understand it, some of them.
+symmetry08 The government isn't stupid. Pretty sure they teach the tour guides English.
Antti R you dont have ears
Randomly talking english to a local and he didn't respond..hmm I wonder why.
Uno Carb
He really is a dumb fuck
Uno Carb I think he said that as a joke.
They act like GTA V peds.
Everyone knows all foreigners speak english
He knew they didn’t understand he was saying that to mess with them.
I'm surprised the cars are real and not just life-sized inflatables
You would be interested in life-sized inflatables. ;D
But seriously, what gets me is the factory plastic wrapped seats. These cars have never felt a pair of cheeks on them, and that's the real tragedy. v__v
That sedan is a rebadged Subaru Impreza. Love it.
2:27 when he walks in the room the minder coughs to let everyone know to start acting
omg hahahaha
He didn’t even see why u think they give a shit abt him
@@sad-fj8cq ok
**coughs in North Korean**
@@sad-fj8cq he did lol, he was sideways
This feels like the Truman show.
Exactly 😂😂😂
Only you get oppressed even harder.
And 1984
By comparison the Truman Show is utopia though. This is their shining star capital as this is as good as it gets and only for a small elite minority. Beyond this its practically medieval slums only with less food.
@@justinlinden3719 utopia? You, yourself is in Truman show, you just can't figure it out
I'm amazed you made it back...
The leopard looks pretty cool to be completely honest. I think I would buy it if I had the chance and money
Yeah, the interior looked pretty nice ngl
@@wagadoogado i like that it's just a car without any bells and whistles. They even managed to make the screen look utilitarian by just popping it on the dash. The radio below the screen looks familiar though. It looks like some sort of blaupunkt. They put one in one of our company's semi truck a few months ago and it sounds amazing
Wonder if those floor models even have engines
if they are north Chinese clones they most likely have engines cloned as well
They ARE completely re-badged Chinese cars, just for North Korea...
probably some random chinese copy of the mitsubishi 4g64 engine
One is a copy if a pajero and the van looks like a fiat ducato (i know fiat had a venture in nk). So yeah, i do believe they work. Most likely chinese
+jigrodrigues ive just realized the van is a sprinter copy, not a ducato
This is what Koreans think of what western women do all day. Standing around in a car dealership and talking to somebody on the phone.
*808 Cowbell music*
Drifting S14 Silvia and WRX 22B 👀
@@abhiverma9316 Streaming on twitch the whole day while simps throws them money just for saying their names. Not a bad reality after all I guess.
*North Koreans
Well....
The "leopaard" looks a bit like an early 2000's Mitsubishi Pajero in styling and interior
What do you think would happen if you had them pop the hood in mock appreciation then pointed out the branding of the real car company?
2:30 he coughed as a signal
ido perlmutter "American headed our way, act normal"
ok crack head.
Good thing that wasn’t today
Lmao he’s like “the guy with the camera is coming, today we are doing act 4, start!”
🤣🤣
This feels like an early GTA game, non branded GTA cars made to look like real life counterparts, the NPC looking and sounding people, even the showroom looks like it's missing something from real life
Like "a feature of purchasing a car"😂😂
True, Why is your name in cuneiform lol
So relatable bro
This outfit clearly isn't designed to actually sell anything. OK, it sells propaganda, but not cars.
@പഴയ സന്യാസി yeah they can build nukes but can't feed their own people, communism moment
What can one expect from one of the most severely sanctioned country in the world! 😅
Cameraman was really pushing it here. He flexed his powers to the max with this one haha
He stands directly behind them narrating them out loud. 🤣
Yeah man that video is bizarre but hilarious. Guy has biant balls or is naive as hell
@@AbuHajarAlBugattiThat's not having balls, that's playing with fire.
They dont speak english
@@KyleC11 yea but it only takes just 1 person who speak english.. waitt they also go with tour guides (that speaks english obviously) i dont even want to risk it
@@GregHali It is not, "playing with fire," it is excruciating embarrassment.
How could he have so little tact or respect of another country or its people?
Reminds me when they did a tour and they had people looking at blank screens "using the computer"
That's cargo cult. Westerners sit in front of these and they got everything. Maybe if we do the same...
Can you share a link to that video? It sounds more funny. This video makes it harder to be sure his actor suggestion is accurate. Sitting and looking at blank screens while typing or moving the mouse would be far more amusing.
@@OmnivorousOtter101 It's blocked and I can't watch it.
@@IARRCSim They're probably using computer in their imagination lol
My favorite part is the phone on speaker dialing and then hanging up and dialing over and over "hey I'm doing business over here!"
If they had a computer in there it'd 1) be ancient and 2) have an Excel sheet open with random numbers
That green SUV there is literally a 2nd gen montero💀
0:50 you can see “猎豹汽车” on the license plate frame, they imported cars and trucks from China (kinda explains the 3M brand), took the emblems off and put North Korean names on them.
That car is actually the good old Mitsubishi Montero/Pajero from the 90s with some questionable cosmetics done. It's called Changfeng Liebao Q6
@Sarkan Arkhé I know. Remaking the Pajero is probably not the worst thing to do since it was actually a really good car.
Bergbau Hansi true, but you get chinese build quality and not robust, precise Japanse work of art
@Sarkan Arkhé It's a good car, widely used by Chinese military until 2010s
good eye
Bruh i swear NK is like that one little brother that you asked if he needed help and says no even though you see him struggling trying to make it work.
And you can’t really help him because he has nukes in his back pocket 😂
Maybe if that brother also has a habit of killing the family pets. Slowly
Hmm... but... you mean help from other countries I'm assuming (am I right?)
Yeah, If that's the case...well, idk. I think leaders from NK understand the "nothing is for free" dynamic and indeed; "asking" for help or "using" someone's "help", basically means (let's face it; It's a very common dynamic in our daily basis deployed even by our own families. It's shady and stuff but It's sadly there) I owe you one and sometimes those favors cost me even more at the end than the one I was needing to begin with
You lend me a pencil while at the same time, lowkey expecting a whole bookcase in return. There are a lot of people who act subtlety like this.
The people can barely afford to eat there, much less afford a car, if you see someone with a car, they are most likely a high ranking military officer or official
Ever notice how they cough whenever a foreigner comes close?
2:30 - "here they come" cough...
It's corona time
@@localguide5302 you clearly didnt get the joke
@@Sam-kj9ui clearly, neither did you
@@6z0 Are you and Local Guide living in an alternate reality where the jokes are all slightly different from the way the rest of us see them?
@@6z0 you didn't get it either
Imagine if that was your 9-5 job. Going to a car dealership and pretending you are going to buy a car... every single day. And you commute to and from work on foot.😆
At least it's a varied field. They have people pretending to be Christians in Pyongyang's only Catholic church (which caused a minor diplomatic incident when German diplomats noticed that it was a farce), they have people pretending to be guests in resorts and hotels (sounds like the best job), customers in restaurants (they have to pretend to like cold food), they have actors in "model farms" and "model factories" pretending to be farmers and factory workers and of course every North Korean has to play the devout subject whenever the ruling Kims need to be praised.
If everything is fake so what are their source and resource to feed the people?
@@Br4m76 aid shipments from China helps keeps starvation at bay, but hunger and malnutrition is a big thing. North Koreans are considerably smaller and shorter compared to South Koreans due to stunted growth and chronic lack of proper diet. the food they grow themselves are pretty much old style hand tools farming which doesn't produce nearly as much as modern methods.
Imagine what? Its hapoening. Fuck is wrong with you
@@ieatass6463 That's why he used the word "your" and not "their"
That's like me in a Mercedes dealership I went in while on holiday in scotland. It went silent. Everyone vanished and then a guy approached me speaking German and pointing at the door. I left and went to the Ford garage across the road. They gave me a hamburger as it was the 4th of July and they had a bar-B-Q going and a case of bud light. I passed on the bud but had a cheeseburger. Yum yum. 😂
You sold me at "its has air you need that to survive yesssssss???????"